The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
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Vain, very vain is my search to find that happiness which only centers in the mind.Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Beside the bed where parting life was laid,
And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed,
The reverend champion stood.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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